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STANDARD PROVISIONS (…CONTINUED) HC102121QA072

M. ADDITIONAL INFORMATION

(CONTINUED): EVALUATION CRITERIA:

After receipt of quotations, the Government will first evaluate the lowest price quotation.

If the lowest price quotation is determined to be responsive and technically acceptable, no further evaluations will be conducted, and award will be made. If, however, the lowest price quotation is determined to be non-responsive and/or technically unacceptable, further evaluations will be conducted. Technical evaluation team members will include Government personnel and may include Government's contracted advisors. Government personnel will make the final determination of technical acceptability.

Quotations inclusive of the Bahrain Value Added Tax (VAT) shall be itemized in the pricing proposal to indicate so. The Defense Information Technology Contracting Organization will evaluate total price exclusive of the VAT due to government exemption.

All Standard Provisions should be carefully reviewed for all mandated requirements outlined within that Standard Provision and documentation requested as found in Section M and its attachments. Quotations must include all required documents and responses indicated from these Standard Provisions and Section M to be considered eligible for award.

In response to this IQO Inquiry, no terms, conditions, or assumptions will be entertained. If terms, conditions, or assumptions are included in a quotation, the quotation may be excluded on grounds that it failed to comply with the IQO Inquiry’s instructions.

15. ADDITIONAL CONTRACT INFORMATION:

(a) BASIC AGREEMENT:

To be eligible to receive any Order or Circuit Demand resulting from this Inquiry, Contractor/Telecommunication Provider (TP) shall have a DITCO Basic Agreement (BA) signed by both the Government and the Contractor.

Contractors/TPs who do not have a current DITCO BA must execute one with the appropriate DITCO Office prior to submitting any quotes. The Contractor/TP must provide the following organizational information as registered in System of Award Management (SAM):

1. Legal Business Name

2. Address

3. DUNS

4. CAGE

5. Phone and FAX number

6. POC (if different from the POC for Government Business as indicated in your

SAM registration)

7. Name and title of organization official to sign the Basic Agreement

The BA must be signed and returned to disa.stuttgart.ditco.mbx.pl52@mail.mil before submitting any quotes.

(b) NETWORK OPERATION CENTER:

TPs responding to this inquiry shall present evidence of an existing network operation center (NOC) located in one of the countries on the proposed path of the circuit.

Evidence of an existing NOC shall include, at a minimum, photographic evidence of the interior of the NOC, physical address, phone number and the NOC email address.

The center must operate 24 hours a day/7 days a week to receive outage reports, dispatch restoral personnel, and provide restoral status. The TPs must provide a toll-free phone number with notice of completion for use by government to contact the network control center. Personnel manning the network center must understand, speak, and write English. Network centers located at sites in other countries around the world are not considered to be adequate to meet a determination of responsiveness. The TP NOC shall have circuit visibility to assist in any circuit outages; the TP may use the embedded operations channel of the network termination device.

(c) RESTORAL/MAINTENANCE:

1. Telecommunications provider (TP) shall provide 24 hour a day/7 DAY a week service restoral and maintenance. The TP restoral/maintenance response shall be initiated within one hour of receipt of government outage report, including after duty hours, weekends, and holidays. Maximum time to repair is eight hours, including after duty hours, weekends, and holidays. TP installation and restoral/maintenance personnel that have direct interface with government personnel at service locations must understand, speak, and write English.

2. Reason for Outage (RFO) requests shall be provided within 24 hours after fix action has occurred.

3. Outage credits shall be due the government as per terms in the current DITCO Basic Agreement. If the contractor has not executed a current DITCO Basic Agreement, then provisions for outage credits must be in the contract or circuit order. Upon activation of the outage credit clause, the Government shall be issued credits for all outage times incurred during that month’s service period. The credit amount will be calculated per the outage credit clause formula.

(d) PHYSICAL PLANT AND INFRASTRUCTURE:

In accordance with STANDARD PROVISION - 39 - CIRCUIT DOCUMENTATION - AUG 2015 and Section M, offeror shall submit with its quotation detailed circuit/path connectivity diagrams (in the acceptable electronic format (Microsoft Office [PowerPoint, Word, and Excel], Visio, AutoCAD, Adobe pdf, and KMZ or KML) that identifies all points of presence and repeater points.

After award, circuit/path connectivity diagrams (that the contractor/TP needs to provide as being releasable within the US Government) shall also be submitted as final record of the installed path. The TP shall provide as-built drawings which will include:

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I. Information showing the route that the circuit primary path or that an intended protect path traverses. Specific information that must be provided includes:

(1) International border crossings.

(2) Demarcation points between any contractors used to provide the service.

(3) Cable heads and cable stations for any undersea cable segments used to provide this service.

(4) Major multiplexing or switching nodes.

(5) Facilities (central office) locations.

(6) Origin and destination of the 10MB service between these two points per direction of this IQO (originating and terminating facilities).

II. The TP shall provide documentation on the path layout and on furnished and full documentation of installed equipment, to include interface diagrams and system configurations.

Documentation shall include path layout, at a sufficient level of detail to identify each central office or switching stations, cable heads, cable stations, and the approximate physical route for the terrestrial segments and the undersea cable segments. Updated drawings may be provided within 30 days of award, and if the final path has deviations from the initial path documentation, then as-built documentation shall be provided within 15 days of circuit delivery.

Additionally, updated circuit/path connectivity diagrams shall be provided for all Government approved changes in routing of circuit path(s).

Copies of circuit/path connectivity diagrams shall be provided in acceptable electronic formats to the DITCO contracting office, Contract Specialist at ainslie.b.benoit@mail.mil, each location end point site and to DISA-Central at:

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III. Preliminary path documentation must be provided to the government contracting officer with the TP’s quote. For infrastructure currently under development, projected completion dates must accompany the scaled drawings for those portions still under development.

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